THE PETS AT HOME FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1104152 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PETS AT HOME FOUNDATION, Pets Foundation, SUPPORT ADOPTION FOR PETS, THE PETS AT HOME CHARITABLE FOUNDATION · also registered in Scotland as SC052589 (OSCR)

The charity provides support for national animal welfare organisations and locally based re-homing centres through a combination of grants, joint fundraising activities and events. The charity also operates small animal adoption centres in a large number of Pets at Home stores.

Objects

To provide financial assistance for the benefit of the public in the United kingdom or anywhere in the world, in particular: a) to advance education, research and training; b) to promote community participation in healthy recreation; c) to provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with object of improving their conditions of life; d) to promote humane behaviour towards animals by providing appropriate care, protection, treatment and security for animals which are in need of care and attention by reason of sickness, maltreatment, poor circumstances or ill usage and to educate the public in matters pertaining to animal welfare in general and the prevention of cruelty and suffering among animals; e) to promote the preservation of rare or endangered species in their natural habitat and their protection from extinction for the public benefit; and f) to relieve poverty.

Area of benefit: THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES, NORTHERN IRELAND,SCOTLAND, CHANNEL ISLANDS AND THE ISLE OF MAN.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Animals · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,218,374 for the period, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds to £3,217,891. Despite this deficit and a cash outflow of £608,736, the charity held cash reserves of £3,344,814 at the year-end. The trustees confirmed the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• £240,000 funding awarded from Pets at Home Foundation scottishspca.org · 24/08/2023
• Pets at Home Foundation supports Mayhew programme petbusinessworld.co.uk · 13/02/2023
• Pets at Home Foundation launches its biggest ever Christmas fundraiser to help rescue pets companionlife.co.uk · 25/11/2021

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• William Hewish — Chair (source)
• Scott White — Vice Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 27/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (76% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• William Hewishchair
• Alistair Leach
• Andrew Bickerton
• Callum Wells
• JILL SUZANNE Naylor
• Jack Miller
• Scott White

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KITTY KAT RESCUE & REHOMING.

• KITTY KAT RESCUE & REHOMING income £29k
• THE PET CHARITY income £27k
• TAG PET RESCUE income £386k
• CATS IN CRISIS income £256k
• ASSOCIATION OF DOGS AND CATS HOMES income £460k
• MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT HOME FOR LOST DOGS LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.